Hey everyone. Here’s a friendly reminder to be mindful of our rules. Particularly rule 1:
- Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
We deal with enough hate and vitriol in real life. It will not be tolerated here as well. Please report any offending comments and we’ll nip it in the bud as soon as we can.
Let’s keep this as a friendly little community where we can make stupid, stupid jokes.
You know exactly which one it is. Don’t necro-post to an 8-month-old thread just to play stupid.
Edit: Fine, maybe you weren’t disrespectfully sealioning and genuinely didn’t understand which one I meant was different. I will “be nice” and explain it explicitly: it’s religion. Religion is the one that’s different, because it is the only one that’s a choice.
To claim that genetic traits are a matter of “opinion” because they are “culturally defined” is to ignore whose opinion it is. You are failing to make a distinction between a person forming an opinion about themselves vs. having others’ opinions imposed upon them due to traits they can’t change.
I wasn’t "necro-post"ing. It for some reason came up to the top of my Jerboa app, not sure why. I was really confused when you said 8 months old thread haha.
Edit: ah I figured out why. It’s pinned to the top of the Shit posting sub. I must have clicked on that sub and since I am sorted by hot by default, assumed it a new post
Be nice. And in regards to your earlier comment I missed 9 months ago: there is no relevant distinction to me. Don’t denigrate anyone based on any of them. This isn’t really up for discussion.
Just to be clear, you’re enforcing that we must “respect” the choice to engage in willful delusion in the same way we must legitimately respect traits caused by unchangeable genetics?